John L. M. Irby

John Laurens Manning Irby ( born September 10, 1854 in Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina, † December 9, 1900 ibid ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

John Irby, whose great-grandfather Elias Earle had repeatedly consulted the House of Representatives of the United States 1811-1821, first visited the Lauren Ville Male Academy. He continued his academic education from 1870 to 1871 at Princeton College in New Jersey continued and then closed it 1871-1873 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1875 and practiced as a lawyer, first in Cheraw, before he returned to his hometown Laurens. In 1877 he was appointed lieutenant colonel in the militia of South Carolina.

His first political mandate Irby had held from 1886 to 1892 as a Member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina; In 1890, he was the Speaker of the Parliament chamber. In the same year he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate, where he became the successor of Wade Hampton on March 4, 1891. He graduated in Congress a full six -year term until March 3, 1897; for re-election, he joined not to. During this time he led, among other things, the chair of the Committee on the roads to the coast. Successor in the Senate was his cousin Joseph H. Earle, but died in office after only two months. Irby applied unsuccessfully for its successor.

In 1895, John Irby participated as a delegate at the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina. After retiring from Congress, he held no public functions. He was active until his death in December 1900 as a lawyer as well as in agriculture.

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